ENL4112 – Spring 2027 – Ward

Yes!!! There were novels written and read long before the works of Jane Austen and the Bronte sisters appeared! This course will introduce you to a variety of eighteenth-century novels that preceded later, perhaps more familiar works like Pride and Prejudice and Jane Eyre. Among the novels covered are: Aphra Behn's Oroonoko; or, the Royal Slave; Elizabeth Haywood's Fantomina; Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders; and the anonymously published A Woman of Colour. In addition to the novels themselves, you will also learn about the material and cultural contexts in which they were produced. What literary historians call the "rise of the novel" for instance, coincided with tremendous cultural, economic, and technological changes; this resulted in novels that mirrored and produced the culture from which they emerged.

This course meets the Genre and Pre1800 Requirements